My 1st exposure to model aviation after the 1964 Des Moines Modelaires Airshow.
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My brother Todd Anderson w/his Testors P-63. We really smacked that one into the pavement!
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Todd's 1st RC airplane. The Midwest Cessna 150 w/Citizenship Galloping Ghost RC gear and an OS.10 RC. It did not fly well. . .
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1971 My 1st airplane & 1st Radio, I built both the Heathkit and the 'Square Shooter' over the winter.
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The guts of my 1st plans built airplane. The wings were covered in silkspan & dope. They punctured easily.
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The 'Swamp Box' trainer. My 2nd plans built airplane.
We used Todd's Galoping Ghost radio and an OS.19 RC to make it fly.
Note the doubled up antenna. It did not work well that way!
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My 1st auction purchase, a Goldberg 'Senior Falcon'.
Wow! It was big and powered by a Super Tigre .56. (Loud too!)
Note the hatch cover behind the engine is built up to house a 12 ounce tank.
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My 1st scratch built airplane.
Nicer looking than the Square Shooter!
The tip plates made aileron response in slow flight a dream!
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Boys get bored, so after one crash I modified the 'Sr. Falcon' to have bomb racks on the wings.
I could drop 4 bombs individually!
Note the field box slogan "Have Glitch will Crash!"
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